It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it – the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and here's betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent so do you.
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There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.
